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Taro
Colocasia esculenta
A starchy tropical corm eaten across Pacific, Asian, and African cuisines — fundamental to Hawaiian poi, West African fufu, Japanese satoimo, and Filipino ginataang halo-halo.
If you've been searching for vegetables that start with T, you'll find 10 detailed vegetables below. We're not interested in giving you only a list of names — every entry on this page links to a full profile with the kind of detail you'd actually want to know.
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Table of contents
| Taro | Tarwi | Tatsoi | Tepary Bean |
| Tigernut | Tomatillo | Tomato | Tree Onion |
| Turmeric | Turnip |
List of Vegetables That Start With T
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Tarwi
Lupinus mutabilis
An Andean lupin bean with extraordinarily high protein content (over 40%) — a traditional Peruvian and Bolivian staple that requires extensive water-soaking to remove bitter alkaloids before eating.
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Tatsoi
Brassica rapa var. rosularis
A small Asian green with dark spoon-shaped leaves arranged in a flat rosette — a cousin of bok choy, eaten in salads, stir-fries, and increasingly in Western salad mixes for its distinctive shape and mild mustard flavor.
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Tepary Bean
Phaseolus acutifolius
A small ancient bean cultivated by indigenous peoples of the Sonoran Desert for over 5,000 years — extreme drought-tolerance, distinctive flavor, and a major comeback in Native American food sovereignty movements.
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Tigernut
Cyperus esculentus
A wrinkled brown tuber (not actually a nut) eaten as a snack across Africa and the Mediterranean — and the foundation of Spain's beloved horchata de chufa, dating back to Moorish-era Valencia.
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Tomatillo
Physalis philadelphica
A small green papery-husked Mexican fruit-vegetable that's the foundation of salsa verde, mole verde, and the green chile cuisine of central Mexico — tart, citrus-like, distinctly different from a tomato despite the name.
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Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
A sweet-tart nightshade berry, botanically a fruit, treated culinarily as a vegetable, and the foundation of cuisines from Italy to Mexico.
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Tree Onion
Allium × proliferum
A perennial onion variety (also called walking onion or topset onion) that produces small bulbs at the top of its flower stalks — drooping under their own weight to plant new bulbs nearby, "walking" across the garden.
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Turmeric
Curcuma longa
A bright orange-yellow rhizome from a tropical Asian plant — fundamental to South Asian and Southeast Asian cuisine, the source of curry's golden color, and the focus of an enormous global "anti-inflammatory" supplement industry.
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Turnip
Brassica rapa subsp. rapa
A peppery, white-and-purple root vegetable common in Northern European cooking — predating potatoes as a staple, with leaves (turnip greens) eaten as a separate vegetable across the American South.
About vegetables starting with T
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